Richard Holden is an economics professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He was previously on the faculty at MIT and the University of Chicago, and received his PhD from Harvard University. His academic work has been published in top economics journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the American Economic Review, and also in Nature. He is also a regular columnist for the Australian Financial Review.
Richard is the co-author of "From Free to Fair Markets: Liberalism after COVID-19", and his most recent book is "Money in the Twenty-First Century: Cheap, Mobile, and Digital." Digital currencies are already revolutionizing economic activity through the power of smart contracts and programmable money. But there's a race for control. Will it be won by a private company, the Chinese government, or the United States? The book shows how the U.S. can and must win the race to keep the backbone of the 21st century economy free.